Anita Blakley, R.P.Bio., joined LGL Limited in 1995 and has contributed to a wide range of projects including surgically tagging salmonids and First Nation fisheries co-management. She played a key role in managing a multi-year Yukon River Salmon Harvest Basin Study for the Council of Yukon First Nations. Anita has considerable experience working on a wide variety of Recreational Creel Surveys and has provided database and management support which produced in-season reports for the Lower Skeena River, Peace River, and Haida Gwaii Recreational Creel Surveys. Since 1999, she has surgically implanted acoustic and radio transmitters into juvenile Chinook, Sockeye, and Steelhead salmon to estimate the survival rate and behaviour of the fish during outmigration passing dams on the mid‑Columbia River. Anita is also skilled in implanting transmitters into Pacific Lamprey, White Sturgeon, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, and Northern Pike Minnow. She has also practiced other forms of tagging: elastomer, spaghetti, and gastric. She has offered technical support to many BC First Nations (e.g., Tsawwassen, Tla'amin, Kitsumkalum, Nisg̱a'a, Metlakatla) to develop their fisheries catch monitoring programs, with a focus on improving in-season data collection and preventing delays in data processing and reporting. Recently, Anita represented the Alliance of BC Modern Treaty Nations during renewal discussions of the 1999 Salmon Allocation Policy. She is a Registered Professional Biologist in B.C. under the College of Applied Biologists and a member of the Association of Professional Biology.